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Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (French: [ɑ̃ʁi ʒyljɛ̃ feliks ʁuso]; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) [1] was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was also known as Le Douanier (the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll and tax collector. [ 1 ]
Rousseau's other friend and neighbor, Jules Dupré, himself an eminent landscape painter of Barbizon, relates the difficulty Rousseau experienced in knowing when his picture was finished, and how he, Dupré, would sometimes take away from the studio some canvas on which Rousseau was laboring too long. Rousseau was a good friend to Diaz ...
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) Ernest Breton (1812–1875) Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) Antoine Chintreuil (1816–1873) Louise Astoud-Trolley (1817–1883) Charles-François Daubigny (1817–1878) Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856) Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) Eugène Lavieille (1820–1889) Alfred Dehodencq (1822–1882) Rosa ...
He was the eldest of nine children born to Léon Rousseau (1840-1911), an engineer who participated in the construction of the Suez Canal and, when Henri was three, became the General Director of Public Works for the Khedive, Isma'il Pasha. [1] His family left Cairo after the Anglo-Egyptian War, returned to France and, in 1885, settled in ...
Georges Rouault (1871–1958), French painter, draftsman and print artist; Hassan Rouholamin (born 1985), Iranian painter and illustrator; Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), French painter; Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), French painter; Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867–1944), French painter; Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827), English artist and caricaturist
The Sleeping Gypsy (French: La Bohémienne endormie) is an 1897 oil on canvas painting by the French Naïve artist Henri Rousseau (1844–1910). It is a fantastical depiction of a lion musing over a sleeping woman on a moonlit night.
The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art). For alphabetical lists, see the various subcategories of Category:French artists .
Théodore Rousseau came to the region in 1848 and he subsequently attracted other artists. Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875) Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña (1808–1878) (Born in Spain) Constant Troyon (1810–1865) Jules Dupré (1811–1889) Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) Jean-François Millet (1814–1875) Charles-François ...